circuitfarmer

Sure. But the costs for implementing such a thing are certainly above simply using the tools on the platform on which the dev has decided to release their work. If they disagree, don’t release it there.

This idea that the consumer should do something additional besides giving you money is a nonstarter.

Yeah the pump and dump is clear. Too bad his supporters are so slow.

metricoracy

And Trump surrounds himself with family members, media personalities, other grifters, and people with generational wealth.

But remember: the design and initial implementation of the internet was paid for by the populace. It is supposed to be filled with cool and useful, free stuff.

Corporate interests and “web 2.0” have turned it into a weird hellscape of misinformation and targeted advertising. It was not designed for it.

It’s the walled garden thing that gets me. At some point, people got complacent. I’m 100% confident that there is an entire swath of the population which has never considered that Discord is a corporate entity with corporate interests. We made open standards for a reason.

(I disagree with this, and Stern is also a shit person)

But about Rogan “playing centrist”: this is always the way. Convince people you’re just as lost as they are, while objectively not being so based on your podcast deals and metrics. Then slowly shift based on your actual positions.

You get both a) more people following in the first place, and b) an excuse to point to when you get called out for being yet another fascist.

It’s always projection.

Start asking MAGA who paid them to be MAGA.

As others have said, this seems like an ill-formed question. Do you have reason to believe that politicians “cling to the idea that these voters can’t be reached”?

On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.

Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.

How quickly we moved beyond the point where a president being better connected to corporations than the constituents he is meant to represent actually matters. Now we just want some insight into the backroom deals.

Becoming the norm in Corporate America, if it isn’t already. Every employee is disposable. It doesn’t matter what you do. It doesn’t matter how good you are. It doesnt matter how loyal you are. You are disposable.

There is no social contract anymore between employers and employees. “It’s just business” is a cop out to wriggle away from ethics – but it is now the law of the land.

Literally how grifts work.

There is one thing that could potentially make average Americans join forces: most every single politician, regardless of affiliation, is dangerously out of touch.

Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.

Clueless execs are always the problem, ultimately. They have their real estate obligations and simply cannot fathom that social norms around working have changed.

Companies which are heavy RTO will fail. Some of the hybrids will survive. Fully remote companies are thriving.